PPIN (Personal and Professional Identity Narrative)
The purpose of PPIN is to provide you with a “working document” that will help you to orient yourself as you make personal and professional decisions in your life. If you take the process of reflecting on your life seriously, the PPIN can help you to better understand the key events of your life and their continued influence and to explore possibilities for the future.

I. My Personal Identity

My Personal Identity (A brief introduction covering Who I am? Where did I come from? What is important? What is not important? Where I am now in life? )

II. My Family Background

How did I experience my family life growing up?

What are the important family stories?

III. Significant events in my life.

Describe those events that had the most profound impact on your life?

IV. Significant relations in my life.

Describe them- important people and your relationship to them including their emotional impact in the past and the present.

What regrets do you have, i.e. things you wish you hadn’t done or things you wish you had done but didn’t?

V. My personal identity

Describe in one sentence, what you do professionally.

Elaborate your feelings about work.

What do you like about it?

What woua What other roads do you wish you wish you had taken? ld you rather be doing?

What would you rather be doing?

VI. Individual interests

Describe things that are of deep interest to you personally that do not involve your work or your relations with family and friends.

What do you like to do only for yourself and your own pleasure?

VII. My future

Describe a picture of your future: Where are you headed in life?

What are you attempting to do?

What are your concerns?

Try to imagine not only what you would like to “do” but also what “lifestyle” you would like to have?